Brahmin, Shudra….I don’t care

If I were to pinpoint the most foolish innovation of evolved human mind, it would be a caste system.

Don’t take me wrong. I do not imply caste system is the worst evil. I consider slavery, racism, kafir to be notions that are even more despicable. To enslave someone as property because he or she is of a darker color is a sign of savagery. It doesn’t qualify to be even termed ‘human.’

Similarly, to believe that people who refuse to believe in my book, my concepts, or my prophet are kafirs or worst of creatures or will go to hell, again is the brutal tribal mindset. It does not represent evolved thinking. What the USA was doing before 1865 or what Al Qaeda and Taliban mindsets are doing even today, does not even come under the purview of “evolved human mind.” These are just animal behavior.

If I were to restrict myself to more “refined” set of innovations, caste system stands miles above all. Caste system is a mathematically flawed, unverifiable, and prejudiced concept that has no logical basis whatsoever as well as is against Vedas – the source of Hinduism. Yet, this foolish innovation has contributed the most to damage of the otherwise glorious culture of this great land. Instead of being a wolf that brutally attacks, it has been like a vampire that sucks away the blood while we remain asleep.

I have already written in length on how this foolish innovation is against the very tenets of Vedas – the source book of Hinduism. I have also discussed how this has been the prime culprit for our slavery and all atrocities we have faced as a society or country. And how this is the greatest stigma on the brilliant face of our civilization.

In this concluding chapter, we would look at a few inherent flaws in the basic premise of the caste system.

Flaw 1: Caste system segregates each human

Caste system necessarily segregates each human into one of the four buckets – Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra. This is like a multiple choice question set by a naive.

It does not have the option to choose anything beyond the four irrelevant choices. Further, there is a penalty of becoming outcast if you dare to do so. Hence, an irrational answer is chosen as per whims of the decision maker.

In reality, the four castes are actually called Varnas (which means choice) in Vedas. They are part of a model to explain human behavior so that necessary steps for the structuring of society in a sensible manner can be taken. All scientific innovations begin from certain models, which are further analyzed, enhanced and utilized to generate worthwhile outputs. For example, the concept of mass, weight, speed, and acceleration are a basis to model complex mechanics and derive benefits. Vedas also suggest several such modeling elements and Varna system is one of the many. Reality:

As per Vedas, these four Varnas – Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra represent four basic properties. Various human behaviors can be explained in the form of different combinations of these basic properties. These vary at every point in time in the same individual as well as vary as per the field of the investigation being chosen.

The concept is similar to the CMYK model used in printing to generate different colors. The Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black colors defined at each point on the paper generate all kinds of images we see in magazines and photographs. Just imagine how foolish you would consider me if I show you a random photograph of some person, and demand you to answer whether the picture is Cyan, Magenta, Yellow or Black! If I do it with everyone in my colony, perhaps they would together lodge a complaint to have me treated in mental hospital in the public interest! In the case of the caste system, this insanity has been tolerated in our colony for ages leading to havoc.

Flaw 2: Caste system has been restricted to four Varnas

Going a step ahead on the previous point, the harsh reality is that caste system has never been restricted to these four Varnas alone. As explained earlier, because of restrictions in freely looking at sensible options beyond the four castes model and combinations of these castes, people were forced to create a complex web of castes, sub-castes, sub-sub-castes and so on. Even among Brahmins, there are high caste Brahmins and low caste Brahmins. If you go to Varanasi to learn Vedas, the high caste Brahmins will refuse unless you belong to a high caste Brahmin family.

Even among so-called low caste Dalits and Shudras, there are high caste Dalits and low caste Dalits. A Yadav will claim to be higher than Bishnoi and Bishnoi will claim to be higher than Yadav. Yet, each will fight to be included in OBC or SC/ST list. There is a Dassa Agarwal and Bissa Agarwal and each claim to be superior. There is a Prajapati, which will sometimes call itself Vaishya and sometimes a Shudra. Even Muslims and Christians have hundreds of castes, sub-castes, high castes and low castes. Currently, we have thousands of such frivolous classifications, and we all take pride in belonging to our own classification by birth. We fight for special rights for our own sub-sub-sub-….sub-castes.

One foolish concept has led to such a complex ecosystem of even more foolish caste-network that keeps building up. That is why I call it a foolish innovation.

If we go back to the scriptures that are blamed for starting this mess, there is not even a remote reference to such complex classifications. And hence, there is absolute chaos in matters of social rights and status of these thousand innovatively foolish sub-sub-sub…sub-castes.

In case we are humble enough to go back to the original source – the Vedas – they clearly assert – There is only ONE caste – Humanity. All humans have same rights irrespective of their birth. What status a human achieves must solely be based on his or her merit and NOTHING else.

Flaw 3: Caste system is supported by Hindu scriptures

Some wisest fools give reference from scriptures that Brahmins came from the mouth of God, Kshatriya from hands, Vaishya from tummy and Shudra from legs. Hence, the caste system is birth-based. We have already analyzed this reference in great details.

But let us now evaluate how flawed this entire hallucination is.

Did God also give a certificate while throwing a Brahmin out of the mouth and Shudra out of the feet? Alternatively, did he put a tag for verification to prevent piracy? The most basic documents have this feature. Why was God unintelligent enough to miss this?

If he was not, what method do we have in place to verify whether a person who is claiming to be a Brahmin is indeed a Brahmin? Does he have a DNA test certificate that he or she is the biological progeny of the first Brahmin who were spitted out of the mouth of God at the inception of civilization millions of years ago?

If not, why do we believe so? Being a Brahmin gives you superior rights. Obviously, there is a natural incentive for a dishonest person to claim being a Brahmin. Don’t we see the number of fake certificates and fake currency being printed from corrupt places in the country?

The hard fact is that there is no way to verify whether a Brahmin of today is indeed a progeny of someone who was Brahmin even 200 years ago, forget about millions of years. The very concept of ID proofs has come today, and even that is being faked. The probability of a Brahmin of today being actually a progeny of Brahmin at the inception of civilization is extremely minimal. In the same vein, the probability of a ‘Dalit’ being the progeny of a ‘Dalit’ at the inception of civilization is even more minimal.

The same argument goes for every caste.
Hence, the caste system has nothing divine in it. If it were divine, there would have been obvious ways to verify the same conclusively. For example, it is easy to verify whether someone is human or an animal (I am excluding those cases where humans conduct beastly deeds). It is easy to verify whether someone is dog or pigeon.

That being not the case, the caste system is at most a human innovation. Very primitive minds divide everything in binary – good, bad; black, white, etc. Evolved minds even add more choices. However, a fertile mind would embrace the fact that there is a continuum, and any classification is merely an approximation. As mind power increases, you start using more complex models to explain the world.
As babies, we learn addition and subtraction by drawing lines and counting them. Then we learn arithmetic and algebra. Smart ones understand calculus. Algebra would help to find the area of square and rectangle. But to find the volume of a sphere, we need to learn calculus. So, it will be called foolish dogmatism if we try to use the formula of the cube to find the volume of a sphere because as per your book formula of the cube is divine!

Let us be more honest and admit that caste system is a baseless, unverifiable, whimsical innovation. All we can say about a person is that he or she is a person. Any claim on his caste will only be a blind assertion.

Flaw 4: Mleccha doesn’t belong to any caste

No one knows in which caste to put 6 billion non-Hindu population of the world. When someone embraces Hinduism, fools debate on whether the person should be considered a Brahmin or Shudra. People like Stephen Knapp – who have contributed more to Hinduism than bigoted casteist pundits was denied entry in Puri temple because he was not born as a Hindu.
Some call such people Mleccha.

The reality, however, is that these Mlecchas have demonstrated more intelligence and vision than all the caste-loving pundits of Kashi put together. They have brought more researches, innovations, inventions and discoveries and even the books of casteists need to use printing technology or internet invented by these outcasts!

Either these Mlecchas are the real Brahmins or God better make entire world Mleccha or outcast.
India became enslaved because of this foolish birth-based casteism that ensured that a person can become outcast for a most frivolous reason, but there is no mechanism for such person to become a respectable Hindu again. Hence, we see Kashmir, Pakistan, and Bangladesh becoming our headache.

Flaw 5: Only in special situations caste can be changed

Some modern thinkers claim that caste is based on actions and nature but not on birth. Others say that in special situations, one can change the caste. Both these arguments are flawed. Because both of them demand the existence of a third-party certification agency that allocates caste. But since spiritualism is directly between me and my God, who are these third-party agents to certify how I should follow my God’s voice? And who will decide caste of these certifying agents?

Further, may be in primitive society, it was easy to bucket each individual into one of the four castes. Because professions were simple. However, it is impossible to do so today due to complexities. A four-part classification is too crude and elementary. For example, what is a caste of a software engineer? What is a caste of computer technician? What is a caste of anti-virus maker who fights against cyber-attacks? What is a caste of e-commerce platform developer? What is a caste of a paid project manager?

Only a person who did not study mathematics seriously would try to fit in an approximate classification just because it is written in some obscure book, as narrated by some apologetics. An honest person would simply say, they are all humans. And each moment, they take one or more roles of being a Brahmin (knowledge-oriented), Kshatriya (defense oriented), Vaishya (economy oriented) or Shudra (task oriented).

Flaw 6: Caste system is foundation of Hinduism

Some defend it by saying this is the foundation of Hinduism or Sanatan Dharma. They refer to history and Purush Sukta. As for history, that does not hold water. There are many things we do that we never did in history. And there are many things we did in history that we ourselves gladly rejected as evil. For example, polygamy and dynastic rule.

Also, we forget that Vedas provide hundreds of models, and if we are not able to understand one model properly, we better adopt some other model.

If you do not know how to fly a supersonic, you will reach faster on a horse. Moreover, if you know how you fly a supersonic, you don’t insist on the donkey for historical or “scriptural” reasons. You need not even learn to ride a horse to fly a supersonic.

Let us get rid of this foolish dogmatism. Let us eradicate this caste system from the very root. Let us stop trying to defend a primitive model of caste-classification in any way. Let us be honest to Vedas – the root of Hinduism. Let us realize that there is nothing Hindu or Vedic about the caste system. In fact, the caste system is the most anti-Vedic or anti-Hindu concept.

The West was worse than animals until 1865 when slavery was banned. They then decided to look afresh. They did not try to glorify their ignominious past. In fact, they repented for it. And hence today, they are the world-leaders.

If we want to be world leaders as well, let us also humbly accept this blunder of ours. Let destruction of caste system be the number one priority.

Let we become One India, One Society, One Caste and let merit alone decide who achieves what.

If we do not do so, we will continue to remain the most queer society of world – that is so intelligent and yet so tormented. And if we can destroy this foolish innovation from roots, we would be unstoppable.

Say No to Caste System and Unleash the Legend Within.